Healthcare Recruiting · Winston-Salem, NC

Physician, PA & NP recruiting in Winston-Salem, grounded in the metro's real numbers.

We track the Winston-Salem, NC area from federal data that updates every month, the same numbers we use when we take a search. Here is the current picture, and what it means if you are hiring.

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Provider supply

Who practices in Winston-Salem today

Individual providers with an active practice address in the Winston-Salem, NC area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).

2,952

Physicians

1,071

Nurse practitioners

960

Physician assistants

Over the last 12 months, the Winston-Salem metro added 38 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 8 physicians, and 52 physician assistants to the registry. New NP enrollments outpaced new physicians: the advanced-practice workforce is growing faster than the physician base, and hiring plans that ignore that mix are competing for the scarcer pool.

Source: CMS NPPES registry, June 2026. Scope: North Carolina side of the Winston-Salem metro area.

Demand

What the local employer market looks like

Federal quarterly employment data for Winston-Salem-area healthcare employers.

Hospitals

25,481 employed, up 5.0% year over year. Average wages up 12.1% over the same period.

Ambulatory care

14,235 employed across 1,044 sites.

Source: BLS QCEW county files, private ownership, Q4 2024 vs Q4 2025.

Occupation-level wages are published at state level (see the parent state page); metro wage signal = QCEW average weekly wages above. See North Carolina pay ranges →

Shortage pressure

42 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the Winston-Salem area.

37 of them score in the high-need range. If your facility sits in or near one, you are not imagining it: the supply math is against you. That is the search we run every day.

Source: HRSA HPSA primary care detail file.

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